On the remote dirt road to riches

A man riding his motorbike past a herd of cows along the Linden-Lethem road.

THROUGH the vast interior of Guyana, a historic red dirt road known as “The Trail” winds through rainforest, plains and hills, linking the capital Georgetown to Lethem in the south on the border with Brazil.

Now that the nearly 500km link is being upgraded into a major highway, autho­rities in the South American country – which has the world’s largest oil reserves per capita – hope the project will help transform its economy.